Cirrus@Austlit

'‘Listen to Me’ is a collection of songs, words and music made in response to the current debate in Australia about gendered violence. It contains factual quotes, personal stories and originally commissioned lyrics by Donna Abela, Eunice Andrada, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Alison Croggon, Candy Royalle and Ania Walwicz, with Hilary Bell as the project dramaturg.' (Production summary)

'Enter into the world of imaginative writing that crosses over into theories of language and the mind: 

'A fairytale. Magic horse tells me. I grow a beard. Who is me? Work crosses boundaries between poetics, theory and autobiography. An opera of the self. I am the diva. Dark comedy and terror of psychoanalysis comes to life here. A learning experience. Layered text. I become the Doctor. The composition of the self. The work of memory, charm and play. Doctor Walwicz tells you a trauma. Doctor Freud reads me here. I know everything now and all at once. Fictocriticism. A multilevel text. You can do it too. I analyse me. You can do it to you. A different reading of the self. My diary. I tell you everything here. I open my head. I open my heart. Read me.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'“EAT” is an excerpt from Horse, a work in progress, previously unpublished material, autobiographical reference, a personal diary of the fictive self. The text forms part of a PhD dissertation,’l format of polyvalence and polyphony enacts the engagement with psychoanalysis. The photographic images form a part of the theatre performance now in progress. The writing stages an interplay of prose/poetry and theory.' (Publication abstract)

'Palace of Culture is a dream diary, leading the reader into a personal and surreal engagement with the bewildering complexity of contemporary popular culture. Like her previous work Red Roses, Palace is a freewheeling work drawing the reader in to participate in its very construction. The layering of the oneiric on top of popular culture results in an intriguing interweaving of symbolic meanings (the notation and enactment of inner-states of feeling and being) with the arbitrary marketing decisions of our broader cultural stage. The language of Palace of Culture is not only the subject’s medium, but a source of revelation itself, a phantasm. It is something that is dreamt by its author and its reader, in the palace, at four a.m.' (Publication summary)

'Elegant flight of language, theatre of my head, enactment, i never end, action, re-enactment, this can be done again and again and again, the loopy loop, sharp piercing, a sign, an elegant outfit.' (Publisher's blurb)